From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 6:36:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1041037B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:36:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AE543EB2 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0REbUiE006701; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:37:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E35440E.3000906@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:37:02 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wayne Swart Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Re: disconnecting box References: <20030127131309.C260-100000@gemini.fixx.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wayne Swart wrote: > Hi everyone > > I have a freebsd 4.7 box that keeps disconnecting for no reason. It simply > just disconnects from the internet and if i do a ifconfig dc0 down and > then ifconfig dc0 up, it comes back up again You know, I saw this once a few years ago. The problem was a crappy NIC and the solution was to replace it. > i have tried 3 different network cards. if i use a 10mbit card it doesn't > happen, but on a 100mb card it lasts like 3 hours and then falls over What about the third NIC? It sounds like the 100mb card is problematic. > i took a look at /var/log/messages but it shows nothing Neither did I. I think the problem was a hardware level that the kernel wasn't able to detect. > if anyone knows anything about this please let me know, i have to get it > fixed, but i do not even know where to begin If the 10mb card works, why not just use it? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message